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All the zithers here are handed down from ancient times.

And one of them

was used by His Highness when he was young.

It was sent to Chang'an

after the late emperor passed away.

His Highness said that

you can choose one yourself.

Which one did my master ever use?

Are you asking me which one

did His Highness use?

This one.

It's called Chang Feng.

The waves rise as the distant wind comes,

like a single filed on a high mountain.

I'll take it.

What a boy,

the reason you are unwilling to get together with me in Pingqin County must be that

you have kept a beauty

inside your house.

Is he one of Master's friends?

You are?

Never mind.

I am just gonna salute him first.

Are you Zhou Shengchen's concubine?

No, no, I am his protégé.

I see, I see.

I get it.

I knew it the moment you waved.

He can't marry you in a public manner.

You see, he'd

rather take a serious oath,

what a nuisance.

You two.

Yes, Sir.

What you saw today

stays in this room.

Do you hear me?

Yes, Sir.

I should call you sister-in-law.

It should be.

What's the name of your mansion?

No, no, you misunderstood.

Not sister-in-law?

If not, then.

Whom?

You, you go out and ask

someone in the mansion,

and you will know who I am.

Me, going out?

No, my dear,

why are you driving me?

Did I say anything wrong?

Don't take it personally.

Though I am one of the kings.

I am actually,

I am a seigneur, conferred after the counter-insurgency.

I am not a member of the royal family,

I didn't read a lot.

Please forgive me

if I said anything offensive.

I, I will apologize.

Don't be mad, don't be mad, don't be mad.

I am a man of little education.

I am really not...

You scared my protégé.

You little...

Protégé?

The Cui family sent her over here?

But I have no idea.

Sorry, my dear sister-in-law.

All right.

You may go.

I have put my foot in my mouth again.

Come on.

The people of Pingqin County

came along with the Lord Pingqin

and they brought a lot of harvest from this year with them

to show their gratitude

for the great kindness his Lord showed to send out troops and save the city last year.

May I know if she is the Princess?

No.

This is His Highness's protégé.

I heard that Nanchen King's protégés

are all generals.

She is new, she is new.

The people in your jurisdiction

are so you.

They all love to see someone as someone else's wife.

Stop calling without knowing.

This is not concubine.

I was mistaken just now.

I mean.

Come on.

Apologize to His Highness and Miss Cui.

Please excuse me, sorry.

Not a problem, it's ok.

You are also to blame for this.

If you, the Nanchen King, took a protégé

you have to let all the people from the Western State,

and the Royal Army recognize her.

Tomorrow, I will take you

to see the Royal Army.

Secular conduct my guide, remain integrity for good.

Secular conduct my guide, remain integrity for good.

Secular conduct my guide, remain integrity for good.

Secular conduct my guide, remain integrity for good.

Secular conduct my guide, remain integrity for good.

What's her dreaming about

that's making her smile like that?

She is not too old,

nor too young.

It might be inappropriate

to just carry her back.

What happened to his Master?

To cover the Junior sister with a fox fur

on such a hot day.

Maybe it's for avoiding body contact.

How can you be doing this?

please let me.

She's too heavy for you to carry.

Open the door, please.

This fox fur,

it's from my room.

Just leave it here.

Am I not in my Master's study?

My lady, glad to see you got up.

Did you know that last night,

it was His Highness who carried you back in his arm?

I should

fall asleep in my Master's study.

Though His Highness is not

someone to be easily fussed.

But the etiquette between a master and a protégé,

you can never forget.

Especially because His Highness is the uncle of the emperor,

even the emperor himself

has to show some courtesy to him in the future.

I know.

But I didn't mean to fall asleep.

I get it, my lady.

You were simply too tired at that time.

But here we are, at the royal mansion.

Nothing like that of Cui Mansion.

We must be careful all the time.

Master,

you are finally back.

Our junior sister locked herself up in the yard

for no reason.

She refuses to eat or come out.

And she's been copying books all the time.

Cheng Xi says she is pondering over her mistakes behind the closed door.

Master.

Did she make any mistake?

I will check it out later.

Master,

why don't you go there now?

I am afraid she won't have a good time if she keeps doing it to herself.

Not everyone

is the same as you,

who would starve to death without having a meal.

I.

Master.

It's a bit inappropriate for you

to crack a joke at this moment, isn't it?

You need to go over there now.

All right.

I will be on my way.

I heard from your senior sister that

you are pondering over your mistakes behind the closed door.

Is it because of last night

that you fell asleep in my study?

Master, Shiyi has realized her mistake.

I forgive you now.

Though Master has forgiven me,

I can never rest easy.

I need to review as many times as I can.

And keep everything firmly in mind.

In my opinion, rather than wasting your time

doing the same thing over and over again.

You could open your eyes instead

and look around you.

Your senior sister

is now freaking out

because you refuse to step out of the yard.

Soon,

if she still couldn't see you.

I am afraid,

she is going to tear the whole mansion down.

Make sure you get that.

I understand.

I gotta go then.

Counsellor,

do you know anything about aphasia?

As far as I know,

if it was a usual aphasia,

the most common way

is to stimulate the acupoint using acupuncture,

along with the support of some medicine.

It will take effect as time goes by.

But I see Miss Cui

is very clever and quick-witted.

She can hear while remain silent.

In my humble opinion,

I am afraid the root cause lies in her heart.

Her mother ever mentioned

that she had aphasia

because of her father's departure.

Have you heard about this,

Counsellor?

I only heard that

the Cui Family searched everywhere

for a good doctor for their daughter.

As for the rest,

it seems that no one dared mention anymore.

Your Highness,

if you really couldn't bear to see her unable to speak.

I can help you search for some good doctors in the Western State

and ask them to come to our mansion for treatment.

However,

if what Cui San Niang said was true.

As far as I am concerned,

if the root lies in Miss Cui's heart.

We must seek her salve where she got her sore.

The secret letter making a false charge against me

should be tore on the spot.

How are you to hide it!

You misunderstood, Mum.

I.

Your Empress.

The emperor has yet to read the letter

as it was opened by me.

Oh, yeah?

What's the content of the letter?

Recite it to me.

You don't dare to speak but to read.

Zhao Teng.

Take him out, 30 rod beats punishment.

Don't be angry, your Empress.

Prince Guangling has been in a poor health since childhood.

30,

I am afraid he won't hold it.

Then 20.

Yes.

Your Highness, please.

Mum.

Why would you punish my brother

every time I made a mistake?

On your knees,

now!

Your Highness, here is your medicine.

Everyone says

Your Highness has taken a huge advantage,

but no one knows your grievances.

You love birds,

and then death was granted by the Empress upon your birds.

You had several fish,

and they were also poisoned by her Empress.

Apart from the daily torture,

you have to take all the blame and punishment for His Majesty.

Enough.

I am simply airing your grievances, Your Highness.

In this place.

Not to fight, not to grab,

not to take by force and not to think

are key to survival.

My brother.

Your Majesty.

Your Majesty.

Don't move, brother.

It must hurt.

I am sorry I got you into trouble again.

I am the reading partner of Your Majesty.

I deserve your punishment.

Your Majesty, don't you have a present ready as your apology

to give to the Prince Guangling?

Yeah, bring it over here.

What's this?

Your crown princess.

I have given an imperial edict

to document Miss Cui's daily life

in the mansion

and send the records to the Eastern Palace

once they were transcribed into volumes every year.

Cui Shiyi.

Your Highness.

What are these?

My lady's birthday is about to come.

Here are things from the Royal Palace.

They are from the Empress, His Majesty,

and rewards from Prince Guangling.

These are all birthday gifts

from the Cui Family in the Northern Chen.

That many?

They have got a big family.

The Cui's got six wives.

Even for us alone,

there are three branches.

And my lady is from Wushui House.

They all got prosperous because of their suzerain.

My lady is the only girl

in her family,

also the future crown princess.

That's why she's got lots of birthday presents.

Did you forget what I said?

No formality inside the mansion.

I forgot.

Cheng Xi says

your birthday is coming.

I have never prepared any birthday presents

for anyone.

After thinking it over.

I think this

might be suitable.

Open it and take a look

Before you decide whether you want it or not, okay?

These are all the seals from the generals who surrendered to me

after I left the Central State.

I was gonna give it to my royal brother.

But it's fine if I give it to you

so that I don't have to think it over and over

for your following birthdays

year after year.

Are you sure you want to give me

Such an important item, master?

So long as you don't hate it.

This is the proof that my master

once fought for his people in different wars,

I will make sure it's well-kept,

and protect it with my life.

We are about to send out our troops.

Get ready.

This is going to take months.

The army provisions and the defense of the Western State,

we must take everything into consideration.

Yes, Master.

Your Highness.

There is one more person to concern.

Oh, and Shiyi.

When we went for a battle before, we went without delay

and our mansion became an empty house immediately.

This time,

thanks to this little protégé.

We can't simply go at our free will.

Well, bring her along then,

so that everyone will feel at ease.

That's impossible.

If Mr. Cui ever finds out that

we brought junior sister

to a battlefield.

He's definitely going to

put up a desperate fight against Master.

Did you forget the next line?

I used to recite it.

But somehow,

I forgot when I took the brush.

May I?

What are you thinking about?

My mum once told me,

the sentence is saying

When a man and a woman are seeing each other, the female exerts her charm while the male becomes intoxicated,

soon they hit it off and fall in love.

Fill in the blank

when you finish your studies here.

I have to go.

And I am here to tell you that.

Where are you going?

I don't live here normally.

Around 8-9 months in a year.

I will be leading troops outside.

It will be the same in the future.

You need to get used to this.

After I leave.

You and Cheng Xi will be the only ones living here

except the guards.

Take care of yourself.

That's all.

There are no other things

I need to tell you.

News of victory.

Okay, wait for my news of victory.

From now on,

there will only be news of victory for the Royal Army.

Master.

Senior sisters and brothers.

Take care.

Like the Master said,

he is always fighting on a battlefield

year after year.

And I always seem to be the only guest

in the Nanchen Mansion.

Master is used to breaking his words.

The time he promised to come back,

is not going to the real time nine times out of ten.

He did, however, only one thing.

The Royal Army was never defeated.

Only the news of victory.

Mas-ter.

Master.

My lady, His Highness is back.

Watch out.

Are you injured? Let me see.

I will go get the medicine.

What's up?

You thought I was your master?

Your master is in the military camp.

Why didn't he come back to his mansion?

He is wounded.

in case of information leakage,

he is temporarily recovering in the camp.

Where are you going?

The military camp.

Did you forget it?

Your master doesn't allow you to go there.

That's what he told me before he left.

Now that he's back.

Those words don't count.

All right.

I'll take you to the camp.

We just won a victory.

He shouldn't blame you.

I'll take the bamboo slips.

You take the books.

The lady from the Cui broke into the military camp without permission.

How dare you.

Sister.

Here.

Follow me to get your “punishment”.

Watch your step.

Is the letter from Shou Yang here?

Eleven.

What? You can't recognize your master?

It's another year you haven't seen each other, isn't it?

How long have we been away?

From the moment we left the Western State till now.

It has been 19 months.

Your wound.

It's okay.

You don't have to care.

Master.

I have prepared the provisions

according to your order.

Great.

So tonight,

you set out with the provisions

to Shou Yang.

I'll go, Master.

I am more familiar with that than him.

Sounds good.

Then you send the news of victory back to the Central State.

Yes, Sir.

Glad our junior sister is here today.

Even if all of us were gone,

there's still someone looking after our master.

I'll be honest with you.

Master fell off his horse

because he was shot by a poisonous arrow

and hurt his arm.

Although he was detoxified,

his symptoms will come back now and then,

and it feels like breaking a bone.

Master won't allow us to make it public.

It will get worse when it's late at night.

So, you need to be extra careful.

Now Master is all yours.

I'll also leave my brother to you.

Don't worry.

He will be there as long as I am.

Our master and I will be the same.

Please take a good rest, Your Highness.

Why are you here?

I worry about you.

Go take a rest in your senior sister's camp.

Your lady won't be of much help here.

I can handle this.

Go ahead.

Anything wrong, my lady?

I mean.

I am afraid His Highness will blame that on me.

Please.

All right, all right.

If he keeps sleeping,

the medicine will get cold.

Why are you here?

My lady, what brought you here?

His Highness finished he medicine?

No, no, the medicine was spilled.

Spilled out.

You are being too kind, my lady.

I will

take the bowl.

No, no.

I spilled it.

Spilled it.

My lady.

What on earth is going on?

Medic.

Your Highness.

I was being careless

and tipped over the medicine just now.

I am gonna have to bother you to cook another one for me, will you?

Yes, I will cook it immediately.

Nevertheless.

You are going to have to wait for another two hours.

Okay, no problem.

Just a bowl of medicine.

It won't kill me with two extra hours.

Why are you so worried?

What do you want?

No matter what you say,

I am staying.

You have made up your mind?

These days,

I am afraid

the news of me having a relapse would get out,

that's why I am only keeping Xiaoyu and Tianxing

with me.

What they can do,

I can do just the same.

All right.

If you get tired,

you can sleep over there.

Today.

My senior sister and brother were wrong.

The day after tomorrow

marks the full 19 months.

The 19 months you are away from your mansion.

Master.

Allow me a few more days till I get used to this,

I will pay a solemn respect to you.